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- PATENTED SEPT. 26, 1005. J. HIRSHFBLD.

BAG. APPLIOATIOH FILED JUNE 23,1905.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 26, 1905.

Application filed June 23, 1905. Serial No. 266,613.

To all whom it may concern: a

Be it known that I, JAooB HIRSHFELD, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the borough of Manhattan, in the city and Stateof New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bags, of which the following is a specification.

the mouth of the bag.

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A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings, in WlllCh' Figure 1 is a perspectiveiview of a bag hav- I ing my invention applied thereto, the mouth of the bag being represented as partially open; and Fig. 2 is a face view of one of the side plates.

The body of the bag is denoted by 1 and may be of any desired shape, style, and ma- I provide the bag with side plates 2 at its month, each of which side plates is provided along its upper edge with a series of holes 3. The upper edge of each side plate is also scalloped, the recesses 4 being located intermediate the holes 3 and the projections 5 being located above the holes. The ends of each side plate are provided with transverselyelongatedholes 6 and 7.

The hand-cords of the bag comprise por-- tions 8 and 9, which are laced over the upper edges of the side plates 2, and portions 10 and of the month between the side plates 2 are preferably finished withsections 12 and 13 of the cord to produce a finished appearance.

The portions 8 and 9 of the hand-cords 'are located within the recesses 4. as they pass over the upper edges of the side plates and are thus held the required distance apart to produce a finished appearance along the sides of the mouth of the bag. The bag itself is secured in any Well known and approved manner to those portions 8 and 9 of the cordas,for instance, by stitching it thereto.

The portion 10 of the hand-cords is secured to the mouth'of the bag exterior to one of the side plates. It then extends through the holes at the ends of that particular side plate and from thence passes through the holes in the ends of the other side plates. Similarly,

the portion 11 of the hand-cords isv attached to the opposite vside of the mouth from the portion 10 and first passes through the holes in the ends of its adjacent side plate and from thence through the holes in the opposite side plate. It will thus be seen that the strain of closing the bag by drawing the side plates tomouth having scalloped upper edges and holes.

along said upper edges and hand-cords laced over the upper edges of the plates and through the said holes.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name, in presence of two witnesses, this 22d day of June,

JACOB HIRSHFELD. Witnessesz' I FREDK. HAYNES, Hnnm THIEME. 

